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South Dakota native Royce Williams wasn’t the only familiar South Dakota face at President Trump’s State of the Union Address last month. While Williams received the nation’s highest military honor – the Medal of Honor, the president also awarded the Purple Heart to West Virginia National Guard Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe and a Purple Heart to the family of Spc. Sarah Beckstrom.
Wolfe and Beckstrom were targeted by an Afghan national last year while they were on patrol in Washington, D.C. Beckstrom’s wounds were fatal.
Delivering the awards was Maj. Gen. James Seward, the West Virginia guard’s adjutant general, who Trump called “highly respected.” Seward pinned the award to Wolfe’s sports jacket. Seward is the former general counsel to former South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard.
Rhoden's Sioux Falls, Rapid City airport funding idea survives legislative flak
PIERRE – A loan package for the state’s two largest airports has cleared the state Legislature, but it came perilously close to crashing.
